Hillary: I've Gotten Used to Being Booed

NewsMax | Monday, Dec. 17, 2001 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[Pipe Dog]

Hillary: I've Gotten Used to Being Booed

Since launching her bid to become New York's senator, Hillary Clinton says she's been booed by crowds so many times that she's now gotten used to it.

Asked about an incident where she was booed off the stage at Paul McCartney's Oct. 20 concert to honor firefighters and police killed in the Twin Tower attacks, Mrs. Clinton told the New York Times Sunday Magazine, "I've gotten used to being in situations in political life, either vicariously or on my own, where that just happens sometimes."

Clinton described the humiliating heckling episode as "part of the healing process" in the wake of the World Trade Center attack.

"(The firefighters and cops) can blow off steam any way they want to," she added. "They've earned it."

The former first lady has also been publicly booed at New York City's St. Patrick's and Israeli Day parades as well as at her own New Year's Eve Millenium celebration on Washington, D.C.'s Mall.

Clinton campaign biographer Beth Harpaz, author of the book, "The Girls on the Van," recently told Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly that Sen. Clinton hasn't attended any funerals for constituents killed in the 9/11 attacks because she's afraid she'll be booed.

And while she wasn't heckled or jeered during her first visit to Ground Zero on Sept. 14, one on-the-scene source told NewsMax.com that firemen and cops refused to shake her hand.

The Times profile also revealed that Mrs. Clinton's obnoxious eye-rolling during President Bush's address to Congress just days after the 9/11 attacks was more typical than previously known.

"Her aides insisted it had nothing to do with the president," reported Timesman Frank Bruni.

"But when I later saw her at a Senate budget committee hearing, she silently and reflexively shook her head and rolled her eyes almost every time one of the economists who were testifying mentioned Bush's tax cut."

Hillary Not Blaming Bush for 9 /11 Anymore

Just a month ago, New York Senator Hillary Clinton was blaming the Bush tax cut for the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. But not anymore.

During a Nov. 11 interview with CNN's Jonathan Karl, the former first lady insisted, "If we hadn't passed the big tax cut last spring, that I believe undermined our fiscal responsibility and our ability to deal with this new threat of terrorism, we wouldn't be in the fix we're in today."

Since then Mrs. Clinton has apparently thought better of her intemperate remarks, especially since the last thing her financially beleaguered state needs is to insult the man who controls the purse strings.

In an interview published in Sunday's New York Post, Clinton saw things differently.

"I support (Pres. Bush's) leadership," she proclaimed. "I believe his strong hand and words have helped to unify the country and give us the resolve to go forward in this war against terrorism."

[Pipe Dog]

"I've gotten used to being in situations in political life, either vicariously or on my own, where that just happens sometimes."

I'll bet you have. When you lay with dogs your gonna get fleas, ya witch.

[Blueflag]

Uh oh. Put on your kevlar. You're gonna get hit by the "already posted: do a search" police.

Good to read again.

[Saundra Duffy]

Hillary Clinton is married to a RAPIST!

[billorites]

"Hillary: I've Gotten Used to Being Booed"

Good. A nice thick skin will complement her fat ankles.

[spald]

Boooooooooo! Throw da bum out.

[Swede Girl]

Hey Hillary.......BOOOOOOOOOOO! Just go away....don't you get it?

[Pipe Dog]

I did a search and came up empty. Oh well, go ahead and shoot, I'm ready.

[Lexington Green]

Some day, if there is a God, Hillary will get used to her prison cell.

[GSWarrior]

Her focus groups are working overtime.

[LaBradford22]

"(The firefighters and cops) can blow off steam any way they want to," she added. "They've earned it."

I can't believe the arrogance of this woman. What she's basically saying here is that these police officers and firefighters were just randomly "blowing off steam," and she just happened to be the target. She doesn't give any thought to the possibility that not only do these people completely disagree with her socialist, anti-American views, but they also see her for what she is in terms of character. In no way was this a simple case of "blowing off steam."

[Bush2000]

This skank knows she's playing to a subset of New York voters. But she also knows that the only ones that matter are the ones who vote -- and, sadly, the ones that do vote tend to vote for Democrat candidates.

[Moby Grape]

I still look forward to the day that she gets used to handcuffs.

[BRL]

Boooooooooo! Throw da bum out.

Somehow, I feel that she will still get re-elected!

[PBRSTREETGANG]

"I support (Pres. Bush's) leadership," she proclaimed. "I believe his strong hand and words have helped to unify the country and give us the resolve to go forward in this war against terrorism."

Someone must've beaten her over the head with Bush's approval rating. Even she realizes that it's politically unwise to criticize Bush's leadership at this time. (Although in her heart that's what she truly wants to do because she obviously truly despises the man.)

[Howlin]

"I've gotten used to being in situations in political life, either vicariously or on my own, where that just happens sometimes."

What on EARTH does she mean by that?

[backhoe]

"Has that clinton "legacy" made you feel safer yet?"

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The Holiday *Best* of Bill Clinton & his Friends!

-clintonism in one easy lesson--

-"until clintonese is spoken only in Hell!"--

Hillary! and Arafat's wife-

[Moby Grape]

Well, vicarious means: "felt by imagined participation"....perhaps Eleanor Roosevelt booed her when she talked to her ghost.....seriously, she just talks, trying to say ANYTHING that she thinks makes her look good...that is why she gets caught in so many lies...she just talks without thinking....like the lies she was caught in about Chelsea's being able to see the WTC falling.

[mtngrl@vrwc]

A my-but-I-hate-Hillary BUMP!!!!

[Pipe Dog]

Hillary! and Arafat's wife-

Yuck.. thats sick.

Perhaps that would be a good place to look for UBL. Toot'n some cola and hangin' with these bums !!

[vladog]

You ever notice that the 'Thing' always has that pinch faced look? Sucking to many lemons or telling to many lies? She never gets used to the boos. When you are so damn smart and superior you can`t figure out what the boos are about.